fist
要点握りこぶし
意味
- 握りこぶし,げんこつ
例文
The stockholders are making money hand over fist.
株主たちはもうけまくっています。
A man's heart is about as large as his fist.
人の心臓はその人の握り拳とほぼ同じだ。
The speaker banged the table with his fist.
演説者はこぶしでテーブルをどんとたたいた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English fist, from Old English fȳst (“fist”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūsti (“fist”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ- (“to punch; to prick, stab”). Cognates Cognate with Yola fest, hist (“fist”), Saterland Frisian Fäste, Fääste (“fist”), West Frisian fûst (“fist”), Central Franconian Fuus (“fist”), Cimbrian bòista, vòista (“fist”), Dutch vuist (“fist”), German Faust (“fist”), Low German Fuust (“fist”), Luxembourgish Fauscht (“fist”), Vilamovian faojst, faust (“fist”), Yiddish פֿויסט (foyst, “fist”); also Irish fuaigh (“sew, stitch”), Latin pugnus (“fist”), Ancient Greek πυγμή (pugmḗ, “fist”), πύκτης (púktēs, “boxer, pugilist”), Lithuanian kumšt…